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The look of this thing grows on you the more you stare at it. Look at it. Sharp, jagged edges. It looks like it’s from the future, but a very specific future that has been ruined by an increasingly out-of-touch billionaire.
Showing my age but honestly this thing looks like a early 90's 3D game that's got a incompatible driver and the textures have failed to load.
I think of a bad 80s straight-to-VHS post-apocalyptic movie.
It looks like it’s from the future, but a very specific future that has been ruined by an increasingly out-of-touch billionaire.
Chef's kiss
Has this been independently verified as bullet proof by a reputable company? As I have zero trust in any assertions from Tesla based on their previous demos of this.
There are plenty of videos of them being shot
That one guy who sniffs Andrew Tate's farts tested it and it didn't seem to do very well.
To clarify on these two points, Adin Ross literally sniffed the chair Andrew tate sat on after an interview, and also shot the fuck out of his cybertruck and eventually penetrated the door.
Is satire even possible when sub degenerate people exist?
Bulletproof vs small caliber rounds, and even then, it's really more like bullet resistant because if you hit the same spot twice, the second round will punch through.
Everything is only ever bullet "resistant." Have you ever seen the before/after picture of Fort Douaumont after the Battle of Verdun?
Nothing is bullet proof. The CyberTruck is just more resistant than most, although I still don't understand why. Sure he's a QAnon nutjob, but I have to think it's more secondary use for materials developed for SpaceX. They spent a bunch of time and money developing some interesting materials and decided to try to get more use it of it, and the whole bullet-proof bit was more attention-grabbing.
They were using far more than bullets at Verdun.
JerryRigEverything tested it and it stopped smaller bullets
Like a cap gun? Lmao
There are videos that show it's kinda bulletproof, but not really.
Bullet resistantish.
That's what I think every time I see one. I feel bad for those that have to drive one now. They just wanted to be trendy, now they'll be laughed at wherever they go. It's like MC Hammer pants but faster, and dumber.
hé, you can't touch this was a superb song, #1 hit at the time! But yeah his pants were so-so...
Though because they didn't release it as a normal single it never was able to top Billboard Hot 100. Did get to number one on Hot Black Singles though.
So majestic, you mean?
"You Can't Touch This" is also the theme of the Cybertruck. Touching it damages it.
I live in truck country and I haven't seen one of these yet. I've seen some Rivians out and about though.
Despite technically being a truck, they don't really compete with trucks. Maybe they compete with Ford Raptors, but not "real trucks." The only people that are going to buy them are the ones that think it is cool, which are probably not truck guys.
I live near Seattle and have seen them around me. I also went to San Francisco a few weeks back and saw several there.
We have TONS of Rivians too.
Apparently they only have manufactured 3800 of them so far, so I feel like it's gonna be a while before we actually start seeing them
I live near a super charger on the Bay Area. They're definitely around and I don't enjoy it for a few reasons.
Unsafe, heavy trucks with hoods that poke out past the bumper (or that's how I eye it when I look).
Here's what's crazy to me and this isn't even a Cybertruck thing... I live in Indiana. There is, as far as I know, one Tesla dealership in the state and it's a 90-minute drive. Almost 100 miles. I see so many Teslas driving around town. If anything serious goes wrong with any of them, they'll have to have it towed all that distance. So crazy.
I live in the Bay Area and a coworker tells me he sees them every day. I walk to work, he drives. I’ve only seen one and it was parked.
I work in Irvine CA and I see them a couple times a week when I'm out for lunch. Might be the same guy or two though going to lunch at similar shopping centers.
The sharp bumper is the most frightening part, considering the weight.
Complete agree. "Perfect" height for head strike on young or shorter people.
It's not enough to be that height, they pushed it out.
Plus it’s much thicker stiffer steel (that still rusts) so even a 6 footer like me is fucked if I get hit crossing the street.
Trucks need pedestrian safety standards and designs like this (and all the other stupidly tall grills) need to go first.
You keep bringing up safety concerns. Has your current truck ever trapped you inside after catching on fire? So why would you keep asking that about a Tesla truck?
Absolutely horrifying
My friend is a Tesla fanboy and when that women crashed and drowned he wouldn't hear anything bad about Tesla. For sure she was drunk, but my analog handles never stop working in a rainstorm.
You would think that a door mechanism that can be overidden from the inside would be a minimum requirement on a car. But on a Tesla it's not.
Anyone understands why they insist on doing this? Is it to save money on the override mechanism?
Fanboys are gonna point out that it CAN be overriden inside, but to my knowledge it is behind a panel you have to pry off. I don't know why it is gone, it could be Musk thought it was cool, but Tesla takes a lot of analogue inputs and makes them digital to save money, so that would be my guess.
Like the glovebox that is only opened by an icon on the screen?
Didn't know that was a thing but yeah. That is less of a safety issue than missing door handles or the removed turn signal stalk.